Beating Your Facebook Blues – StumbleUpon

I have recently become a fan of StumbleUpon.

It’s a social bookmarking oriented site that offers a bit more entertainment value and others like Digg or Reddit IMHO. It’s all about surprises. Rather than offering you a lineup of items you might like based on your interests it drags you around the internet based on what you might like with every page you view being a complete surprise. You just click “stumble” and BAM you are brought to some brand new page that is somehow connected to your interests and the feedback you have given along the way. If you are tired of the same ole’ newsfeeds and drama on facebook and want to know what’s really interesting out there, then Stumble. It’ll also help you offer new stuff to your facebook followers if you are into that. If you like unique photography it’s especially awesome.

There’s a marketing use too. Tag your websites using stumbleupon and you will see an increase in referral traffic from the site from folks who have similar interests. Beware though, as a user – there have cases of people saying it keeps them up all night doing “just one more click”. Sharing your content on other social sites like twitter and facebook via the Stumble plugin shortens your links and can help improve your organic traffic as well.

I suggest adding the browser plugin so that whenever you get the urge to Stumble, you can. It also makes tagging, saving and rating sites that much easier. There is content of value out there. Sometimes you just have to StumbleUpon it.